Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — MAJOR G. V. MENZIES IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

MAJOR G. V. MENZIES IS DEAD

Prominent Democrat and Lawyer 'Dies at Mt. Vernon. Major G. V. Menzies, one of the leading members of the southern Indiana bar and prominent in state and national Democratic ranks, died at his home in Mt. Vernon last Friday after a long illness. He was born in Boone county, Kentucky, and at the age of sixteen served with his father, Dr. Samuel Menzies, then a surgeon in the Ist Kentucky regiment, and went through the campaign in West Virginia in General Cox’s brigade. He is survived by two daughters and one son, Mrs. Walter A. Seymour of New York, Mrs. Juliette Fitzhugh of Mt. Vernon, and Lieut. Winston Menzies, now with the U. S. regulars in France. His wife, a daughter of former Governor Hovey of Indiana, deceased, died two years ago. !